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Geology and ground water resources of Grand Forks County
Grand Forks County in northeastern North Dakota is underlain by glacial drift, westward-dipping Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks and Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks. Glacial drift that covers the bedrock reaches a maximum thickness of 455 feet. It can be differentiated into 5 drift sheets, each of which in turn can be separated into till units, lake clay and silt units, and sand
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Dan E. Hansen, Jack Kume, T. E. Kelly, Q.F. Paulson
Ground-water resources of Nelson County, northeastern North Dakota
This investigation is part of a Statewide program to determine the location and extent of the ground-water reservoirs (aquifers); to evaluate the occurrence and movement of ground water within these aquifers, including the sources of recharge and discharge; and to determine the chemical quality of the ground water.Nelson County covers an area of approximately 1,000 square miles in northeastern Nor
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Joe S. Downey
A proposed streamflow-data program for North Dakota
An evaluation of the streamflow data available in North Dakota was made to provide guidelines for planning future programs. The basic steps in the evaluation procedure were (1) definition of the long-term goals of the streamflow data program in quantitative form, (2) examination and analysis of all available data to determine which goals have already been met, and (3) consideration of alternate pr
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O.A. Crosby
Geological Survey research 1970, Chapter C
This collection of 42 short papers is the second published chapter of "Geological Survey Research 1970." The papers report on scientific and economic results of current work by 1nembers of the Conservation, Geologic, Topographic, and Water Resources Divisions of the U.S. Geological Survey.Chapter A, to be published later in the year, will present a summary of significant results of work done in fi
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Geological Survey research 1970, Chapter B
This collection of 46 short papers is the first published chapter of "Geological Survey Research 1970." The papers report on scientific and economic results of current work by members of the Geologic and Water Resources Divisions of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Chapter A, to be published later in the year, will present a summary of significant results of work done in fiscal year 1970, together with
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Approximate optimum yield of the glacial outwash aquifer between Sioux Falls and Dell Rapids, South Dakota
No abstract available.
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J.E. Powell, D. G. Jorgensen
Disposal of liquid wastes by injection underground--Neither myth nor millennium
Injecting liquid wastes deep underground is an attractive but not necessarily practical means for disposing of them. For decades, impressive volumes of unwanted oil-field brine have been injected, currently about 10,000 acre-feet yearly. Recently, liquid industrial wastes are being injected in ever-increasing quantity. Dimensions of industrial injection wells range widely but the approximate media
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Arthur M. Piper
Water for the cities - The outlook
Except perhaps for the arid Southwest, water resources are generally sufficient to meet the needs of cities for the foreseeable future. Cities will continue to expand and additional rural areas will be converted to urban and suburban complexes. Demands for urban water will continue to rise and this will place a heavy strain on existing systems.
Cities have always faced water problems. This has lar
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William Joseph Schneider, Andrew Maute Spieker
Relation of water loss to moisture content of hydrophytes in a natural pond
Hydrophytes growing in natural ponds on the Coteau du Missouri in North Dakota have been studied. Previous studies in the same region showed how transpiration by hydrophytes could be separated from the total water loss from a natural pond, during the period that vegetation was growing in height, on the basis of a correlation between the height of vegetation and a mass‐transfer coefficient. It is s
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W. S. Eisenlohr
Hydrology of a part of the Big Sioux drainage basin, eastern South Dakota
In 1960 the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the South Dakota State Water Resources Commission and the South Dakota State Geological Survey, started a program for the hydrogeologic investigation of glacial drift in selected drainage basins in eastern South Dakota. This program was designed to delineate water-bearing deposits of glacial-outwash sand and gravel, and to determine their wat
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Michael J. Ellis, Donald G. Adolphson, Robert E. West
Geology and ground water resources of Eddy and Foster Counties, North Dakota
Eddy and Foster Counties are in east-central North Dakota, high on the eastern flank of the Williston Basin. They are underlain by 3200 to 4300 feet of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks that dip gently to the west. The uppermost formation, the Cretaceous Pierre Shale, lies directly beneath the glacial drift and crops out in the valleys of the James and Sheyenne Rivers. Glacial drift that covers the ent
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John P. Bluemle, Henry Trapp